The federal judge who will arraign Republican ex-House speaker Dennis Hastert Thursday has deep Illinois GOP connections and contributed twice to Hastert’s campaigns while working as a lawyer in the same firm where Hastert’s son works. You know what, Chicago political machine? You’ve changed, man.

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